💼New H-1B Visa Entry Restrictions Due to Labor Market Abuse
Proclamation 10973 addresses the abuse of the H-1B visa program, highlighting its impact on American workers and national security. It mandates new restrictions on nonimmigrant worker entries, especially for specialty occupations, requiring a significant payment from employers to ensure compliance and to prioritize high-skilled, high-paid foreign workers.
Learn More📋Unified Agenda
This regulatory agenda is a semiannual summary of projected regulations, existing regulations, and completed actions of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its components. This agenda provides the public with information about DHS's regulatory and deregulatory activity. DHS expects that this information will enable the public to be more aware of, and effectively participate in, the Department's regulatory and deregulatory activity. DHS invites the public to submit comments on any aspect of this agenda.
Learn More📊Request for Comments on Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey
The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)-sponsored information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). Public comments on the ICR are invited.
Learn More🐑Discontinuation of NASS Data Collections and Business Impact
This notice announces the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has discontinued the information collection for both the Mink Survey (OMB Control Number 0535-0212) and the Agricultural Labor Survey (OMB Control Number 0535-0109), as these collections are deemed duplicative and/or no longer necessary. This action is taken under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) as part of the government's efforts to improve efficiency and eliminate unnecessary burdens.
Learn More📋National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses
The Department of Commerce is seeking public comments on the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, aimed at collecting data to evaluate the characteristics and distribution of registered nurses in the U.S. The initiative addresses the evolving dynamics of the nursing workforce and includes modifications to the survey methods and content for the next collection cycle.
Learn More💼Guidance on Pooled Employer Plans
This document contains limited interpretive guidance to help small employers select high-quality, low-cost "pooled employer plans" or "PEPs." This document also solicits information about prevailing pooled employer plan market practices. The Department will consider the responses as part of a process aimed at developing a potential regulatory safe harbor or safe harbors that comprehensively encourage market participants to offer and employers to join such plans. These efforts, taken pursuant to President Trump's January 20, 2025, Memorandum titled "Delivering Emergency Price Relief for American Families and Defeating the Cost-of-Living Crisis," are designed to reduce investment costs for workers saving for their retirement, thereby improving their lives. These efforts also will help small employers provide more attractive benefits to potential hires, drawing discouraged workers into the labor force.
Learn More📊Overview of Decennial Census Applicant Information Collection Regulations
The Department of Commerce is initiating an information collection request for temporary Census positions, inviting public comments to assess its impact. This collection aims to streamline the application process for job seekers and improve recruitment efforts for the upcoming decennial census.
Learn More💵Overview of New USCIS Immigration Fees Under HR-1
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is announcing a series of fees to be collected by USCIS. Recently enacted legislation that provided for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of House Concurrent Resolution 14, titled HR-1, establishes specific fees for various immigration-related forms, benefits, statuses, petitions, applications, and requests administered by multiple government agencies. This notice announces the new fees that are administered by USCIS, a component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to whom those fees apply, when the new fees take effect, instructions on their payment, when and if the fees may be waived, and consequences of the failure to pay. This notice is intended to provide the information needed for the public to comply with the new law.
Learn More🛠️Renewal of Workforce Information Advisory Council
The Department of Labor (Department) announces the renewal of the Workforce Information Advisory Council (WIAC) charter.
Learn More🌍Analysis of the US-Guatemala National Transfer Agreement
The Department of Homeland Security is publishing the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Guatemala relating to the transfer of nationals of Central American countries to Guatemala, effected by exchange of diplomatic notes on June 11 and 13, 2025. The text of the diplomatic notes is set out below.
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